police in China

updated Tue. March 13, 2018

A prolific traffic offender who attacked his own car with a hammer after police in central China clamped it for a parking offence was given 10 days' detention, according to a local news report. A relative alerted the 54-year-old unnamed man on Wednesday that police had disabled the vehicle in Dazhi, HubeiÃÂ ...

Rongxian Mu writes: China is a one person one vote nation, and that one vote is by Xi Jinping as no one else's vote matters. And so Xi Jinping today voted for himself to become the new Dictator / Emperor for life of the Jinping Republic of China. Meanwhile a heavy police crackdown is underway acrossÃÂ ...

Many of China's most historically significant events -- including the mass slaughter of Nanjing residents by the invading Japanese army in 1937 -- must be treated with the utmost care. On Feb. 21, the Weibo account of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall criticized two men who had donned JapaneseÃÂ ...

Police are checking various popular student hangouts in Beijing's university district to make sure they have no more than 10 foreigners inside at any one time, as the stability-obsessed authorities ramp up security for China's biggest annual political gathering. Security is usually tight in the capital duringÃÂ ...

"It's the latest indicator of the prominence of biometric technology in China, with facial recognition systems being particularly widespread." Police authorities in China appear to be expanding their use of biometric smartglasses. Chinese Police Expand Use of Biometric Smartglasses. News of the devices firstÃÂ ...

China's police have been testing sunglasses with built-in facial recognition since at least last month to catch suspects and those traveling under false identities. Now China is expanding the facial recognition sunglasses program as police are beginning to use them in the outskirts of Beijing, according toÃÂ ...

One IHS Markit estimate puts the number of cameras in China at 176 million today, with a plan to have 450 million installed by 2020. Beyond the CCTV cameras there will be smartphones and the google glass like sunglasses. There will be billions of cameras. China Technology empowered Police State willÃÂ ...

If so, this might the first publicly-known arrest on the issue, though BBC did capture the moment another dissident, Hu Jia, was sent away on a "holiday" paid for by the police, as China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC) got underway earlier this week. But the government's attempt to clam down onÃÂ ...

In a statement posted last week, Hoja said her brother, Kaisar Keyum, was taken into police custody in October. She lost contact with her elderly and sick parents in February. "My father is paralyzed on one side and needs a constant care. My mother has recently had a surgery on her feet and is very weak,"ÃÂ ...

A Chinese student who disappeared in London two weeks ago was found dead on Wednesday. Police discovered the body of Yan Sihong, a doctorate student at King's College London, at an address in Westminster. The death was not being treated as suspicious and Police said her next of kin had beenÃÂ ...

According to business news outlet Yicai, China's Public Information Network Security Supervision agency under the Ministry of Public Security, the country's police force, has been closely watching foreign cryptocurrency exchanges, as well as domestic platforms that have shifted overseas. The report saidÃÂ ...

China's top prosecutor has released new guidelines targeting the misuse of psychiatric hospitals by police and hospital managers to incarcerate political dissidents, activists, and petitioners. The Supreme People's Procuratorate released a regulation on Monday detailing requirements for prosecutor'sÃÂ ...

While this is the first time Chinese officials have used glasses to implement facial-recognition, the technology is widely used by police. China is also currently building a system that will recognise any of its 1.3 billion citizens in three seconds. These programmes have been condemned by human-rightsÃÂ ...

The police force of Harbin, a city in northeastern China, is setting up a branch more than 4,700 kilometers away, in the southern beach resort city of Sanya, BeijingYouth Daily reported Thursday. A photo of a building with the sign proclaiming "Harbin Municipal Public Security Bureau's police Station inÃÂ ...

Chinese police have begun using glasses equipped with facial recognition-enabled cameras to spot fugitives traveling through train stations. Though Chinese police have said the glasses will spot people using fake IDs or traveling to avoid a warrant, many are concerned about China using the tech toÃÂ ...

Police in China are now sporting glasses equipped with facial recognition devices and they're using them to scan train riders and plane passengers for individuals who may be trying to avoid law enforcement or are using fake IDs. So far, Police have caught seven people connected to major criminal casesÃÂ ...

Police officers across China could soon be equipped with panoramic-view body cameras that come loaded with facial and gesture recognition technology, allowing them to identify wanted suspects in real-time. Body cameras have been in use for more than a decade, and today are commonly worn byÃÂ ...

Chinese police have contacted French Uighurs directly via phone or WeChat, a Chinese messaging app, or have paid visits to their family members in China, asking relatives to convey these demands, according to screenshots of WeChat conversations and a phone recording obtained by Foreign Policy.

Ubiquitous surveillance cameras, hooked into facial recognition systems. WiFi sniffers that vacuum up information from smartphones and computers. police officers who scrutinize travel, at home and abroad. Those are a few of the ways the Chinese government is using big data to suppress dissent andÃÂ ...

China Is Using Big Data to Repress its Muslim Uighur population, a rights Group Says .... Wang said she has found evidence that Chinese police are building similar big-data tracking capabilities in other parts of the country under a program called the "police cloud," but do not deploy them to as such anÃÂ ...

China's top prosecutor has released new guidelines targeting the misuse of psychiatric hospitals by police and hospital managers to incarcerate political dissidents, activists, and petitioners. The Supreme People's Procuratorate released a regulation on Monday detailing requirements for prosecutor'sÃÂ ...

Apple said it will only respond to valid legal requests in China, but China's domestic legal process is very different than that in the US, lacking anything quite like an American "warrant" reviewed by an independent court, Chinese legal experts said. Court approval isn't required under Chinese law and policeÃÂ ...

"Even very early in a Criminal Investigation, police have broad powers to collect evidence," said Jeremy Daum, an attorney and research fellow at Yale Law school's Paul Tsai China Center in Beijing. "(They are) authorized by internal police procedures rather than independent court review, and the publicÃÂ ...

Undated photo of Xu Qin, a key figure in the Chinahuman rights Observer group founded by detained veteran dissident Qin Yongmin who appears to ... police in Gaoyou city, which is under the administration of Jiangsu's Yangzhou city, called Xu's son Guo Chen to inform him of his mother's detention,ÃÂ ...

Danville police and firefighters talk near a taped off entrance to the veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic Wednesday afternoon after ... "It was a suspicious package from China, but there was no threat associated with it," said Sgt. Richard Garletts, public information officer for the Salem andÃÂ ...

Launching the appeal for help on facebook shortly after midnight, police said they had local officers, TSG officers and Community Rescue Service carrying out searches in the town with the assistance of Air Support. Sean McCarry from Community Rescue Service said they had 50 volunteers involved in theÃÂ ...

A LITTLE over two years have passed since five booksellers from Hong Kong vanished into Chinese custody, accused of selling works critical of Communist Party leaders to readers on the mainland. Though four of them--staff and shareholders of Mighty Current Media--have since been allowed to leaveÃÂ ...

With most of China getting into the swing of the Lunar New Year holiday, two crime suspects in the southern city of Guangzhou could have been forgiven for thinking the local police force was taking a break too. Unfortunately for them, the city's network of surveillance cameras equipped with facialÃÂ ...

Chinese police officers are among the select people in China allowed to wield firearms (alongside sportsshooters and specified minority group hunters). And, now that rap music has been effectively banned from all media just a few weeks ago, Chinese public security forces have once again managed toÃÂ ...

Fixed facial recognition cameras have been in use to fight public toilet paper theft and to catch beer festival-going criminals in China, and now the technology is being mounted onto wearable glasses to eliminate any blind spots for crimes. Since the beginning of China's Lunar New Year travel season,ÃÂ ...

Mr Qiliho said Fiji treasured and continued to value the relationship with China. He said the Fiji police Force had not only benefitted greatly from the cooperation but they continued to work closely with the Ministry of Public Security in areas of police cooperation. An issue discussed was the specialisedÃÂ ...

Chinese police have begun using glasses equipped with facial recognition-enabled cameras to spot fugitives traveling through train stations. Though Chinese police have said the glasses will spot people using fake IDs or traveling to avoid a warrant, many are concerned about China using the tech toÃÂ ...

police in China are now sporting glasses equipped with facial recognition devices and they're using them to scan train riders and plane passengers for individuals who may be trying to avoid law enforcement or are using fake IDs. So far, police have caught seven people connected to major criminal casesÃÂ ...

A suspected murderer on the run for 16 years in China has been arrested by police after avoiding capture by posing as a monk, local news reports said. Li Tianyou, 41, was detained by police in late December on suspicion of killing a suitor of his girlfriend in 2002 in Guangzhou, capital of southern China'sÃÂ ...

Authorities say the AI glasses have so far been instrumental in identifying seven fugitives related to hit-and-run and human trafficking cases in addition to 26 suspected identity thieves, the South China Morning Post reported. police say the glasses will be used to screen fugitives and illegal travelers usingÃÂ ...

Chinese police using facial recognition glasses to identify suspects ... Pictures of the operation, which were published online by the web version of China's People's Daily newspaper, show a female police officer wearing dark black sunglasses which have a small camera attached on the right-hand lens.

Chinese police are using a Google Glass-like wearable computer to spot criminals, with the notoriously intrusive authorities outfitting security teams with facial recognition tech. The headsets are being deployed among railway police in Zhengzhou, capital of China's Henan Province. Each has aÃÂ ...

The next time a police officer in black-tinted glasses gawks at you, they may be pulling up your personal information. Railway police in Zhengzhou, the capital of central China's Henan Province, are the first in the country to start using facial recognition eyewear to screen passengers, the online arm of PartyÃÂ ...

police officers across China could soon be equipped with panoramic-view body cameras that come loaded with facial and gesture recognition technology, allowing them to identify wanted suspects in real-time. Body cameras have been in use for more than a decade, and today are commonly worn byÃÂ ...

Seventeen Vietnamese women sold as brides to men in China have been rescued in a series of raids on a cross-border human-trafficking network, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday. In all, 60 people, including traffickers and buyers, were arrested in the raids in eight Chinese provincesÃÂ ...

As Theresa may visits China, the UK government has raised concerns over religious freedom in the country's mainly Muslim province of Xinjiang. One man, who fled the country for Turkey, has told the BBC he'll "pay for the bullet" to kill his family to save them from a detention camp. John Sudworth reportsÃÂ ...

Beijing -- A Hong Kong-based book publisher with Swedish citizenship who was secretly spirited to China and held in custody for two years, igniting international controversy, has disappeared again in dramatic fashion -- snatched from a train bound for Beijing under the eyes of two Swedish diplomats.

Xu Yan, the wife of Chinese lawyer Yu Wensheng, speaks during an interview in their apartment on the outskirts of Beijing, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. The wife of a Chinese human rights lawyer says her husband was taken into police custody Friday morning while taking his son to school, a day after he posted aÃÂ ...

HANGZHOU, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- police have arrested 26 members of a hacking group, which allegedly obtained the top listing for (counterfeit) cigarette sellers on China's leading search engine Baidu. police in Yongjia County, East China's Zhejiang Province, uncovered the first case in May 2017, andÃÂ ...

The investigation, dubbed "China Truck" and opened in 2011, was carried out by police in Prato, a city in Tuscany with a large Chinese community, working mainly in the textile industry. the suspects hailed from the Zhejiang and Fujian eastern coastal provinces in China. As part of the sting, police said theyÃÂ ...

Three traffic police officers in northern China have received formal warnings after an overzealous crackdown against motorists with dirty or unclear licence plates. Traffic officers have fined drivers in Shenyang in Liaoning Province 200 yuan (US$31) in recent weeks for failing to keep their plates "completeÃÂ ...

One of China's most outspoken human rights lawyers has been picked up by police near his Beijing home in a move campaigners denounced as the ... Before his detention Yu had repeatedly weighed in on politically sensitive topics despite intensifying efforts to stifle dissent under China's leader Xi Jinping.

Dozens of women and their parents have called a police station in China trying to organise dates with a handsome young police officer who saved the life of a woman threatening to jump from a high building. The calls were made to a station in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province to get contact details for WangÃÂ ...